At 4/10/11 06:21 AM, Nijsse wrote:
On a sidenote, you earned the Cover Band (Punk-o-matic 2) medal a few days ago. Do you have any tips on how you did it? I remember it being the first medal I gave up on, and you did it with ease. You're obviously better at the game, but I might go back and give it another shot if you have some good pointers.
Well, I grew up playing the piano and violin, then around my maturing age, I started playing a lot of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. I don't play any more musical stuff these days, but the lessons I've learned still stuck with me.
Consider this part the disclaimer. Unfortunately, a large part of doing well with music is rote practice and memorization. It takes me a couple weeks to get good at a song, and at least 4+ months to play a concerto or some other really hard piece of music flawlessly for a competition. I'm nowhere near as good as the masters of the world, but I could BS my way through children's songs fairly easily now, and those are on the caliber of normal mode for POM2 and 4-7 bars for DJManiax. It took me 2 tries max for the stadium and park cover songs.
Having said all that, there are a few techniques that you can use.
--Timing and metric! The majority of music follows a kind of beat, whether it is 4:4, 2:4, 3:8, etc. POM2 uses 4:4 pretty much all the time, so you can expect groups of notes to come at you in 2s, 4s, 8s, or possibly even 12s (not sure on the last one, I don't recall). With exception to a few special passages, there's always a rhythm you can use to help you get through. If it helps you, you can accentuate key notes (by bashing the keyboard or something) to help you get your sense of timing.
--When practicing a song, it helps if you start off slow and easy. The cover songs for the stadium and park don't let you do this. Bastards! So instead, you can opt to not play some of the notes, while you try to solidify your mastery on an easier part of a passage. Once you've got that down, you can try to add in more parts, until you can successfully play a streak through those passages.
--If you just get too tired near the end or something (the 2nd park cover is over 5 minutes long), you could try half-assing it for most of the song, but then bust your balls out for the end. I think your rating depends largely on where you are on the meter when the song ends. I've had 95% awful concerts (bottom two red zones), and 84% awesome concerts (green zone). I've never tried this technique though.
Best of luck!
